Mr. Trump fired the inspectors general of at least 15 federal agencies on the evening of Jan. 24, according to The Washington Post. The top watchdogs at the Defense DepartmentState Department, Labor Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs were also among those fired.
President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all external communications and banning travel.
His team at HHS has paused critical communications and meetings, right as public health officials are worried about bird flu.
Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.
The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.
The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental to public health.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team reportedly tapped a former senior health official from the president-elect's first term and a friend to top Trump loyalists to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr's chief of staff.
RFK's hearing hasn't even started yet and the White House has already attacked vaccines, birth control and the WHO
The South Carolina senator admitted that Donald Trump broke the law with his mass firing of inspectors general.
The president of an advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence praised President Trump’s 2024 election victory in a new interview but argued that Republicans will not fall in line
The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.
Disinformation experts may hate President Trump’s executive order ending “the federal government’s pressure campaign on social media companies,” but Reason’s Robby Soave deems it entirely